How important it is that we know Pushkin by sight, that we remember his birthday. Of course, this is insignificant compared to a serious understanding of Pushkin's legacy. But God forbid we fall into oblivion. Such a memory is important, of course, not for Pushkin. Over the past two hundred years, Russia has been drawn to Pushkin several times. The most striking example is the opening of the Moscow monument to the poet, which turned into an unprecedented festival of Russian literature, it was then that the unforgettable speeches of Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Ostrovsky sounded ... Another example is 1937, when the centenary of the duel and death of Pushkin was celebrated. The mournful date has become an occasion to turn the Russian classics into the reading of millions. In the 20th century, this was a necessary step.

Arseny Zamostyanov

Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin - a man of the Nikolaev era. Many people know a playful confession from a letter to his wife: “I saw three kings: the first ordered to take off my cap and scolded my nanny for me; the second did not favor me; the third, although he has put me in chamber pages under my old age, but I don’t want to exchange him for a fourth; they do not seek from good. It's a joke, but it's a hint. Everything here is true, and the line of conduct is determined sincerely.

Emperor Paul really saw the future poet as a three-year-old child. Pushkin really tried to fight with Alexander - with youthful ardor. And it is not surprising that he "did not favor" the young poet. And Pushkin almost became related to Nikolai, although not everything in their relationship was cloudless. And this - down to shades - is felt in a fleeting epistolary reasoning.

The beginning of the reign of Nikolai Pavlovich is known to everyone - it was so tragic. Confusion with the succession to the throne, intrigues, and finally, an armed rebellion of the Decembrists. To establish himself on the throne, the younger brother of Alexander and Constantine had to show determination and rigidity. Undoubtedly, the political climate had changed: such actions could not be expected from Alexander. Today it is not a secret for us that Nikolai Pavlovich was not at all a corporal on the throne. About power, about the state structure, he argued with knowledge of the matter. He was ready for discussion, for demonstrating his own principles. He understood that there was a centuries-old ideology behind him, he felt responsible. Pushkin quite consciously preferred him to Alexander, whom he considered duplicitous and sluggish. In Nikolai, the Russian spirit was felt - royal, Peter's ...

And Pushkin greeted the tsar with stanzas that were not expected from a freedom-loving poet:

In the hope of glory and good

I look ahead without fear

The beginning of the glorious days of Peter

There were riots and executions.

The verses, of course, are not straightforward, they also contain a call for mercy, for the release of prisoners. But ... Shevyrev recalled: "After immoderate praise and flattering receptions, they cooled off towards him, they even began to slander him, accuse him of flattering, appeasing and espionage before the sovereign."

I had to explain myself to the swindlers. The explanatory poem went even deeper than the first stanzas. There is a hundred treatises of political wisdom here. A more convincing sympathetic explanation of the Nikolaev policy cannot be imagined:

No, I'm not a flatterer when the King

I compose free praise:

I boldly express my feelings

I speak the language of my heart.

I just loved it:

He cheerfully, honestly rules us;

Russia suddenly he revived

War, hopes, labors.

Oh no, even though youth boils in him,

But the sovereign spirit is not cruel in him.

To the one who is clearly punished

He secretly works mercy ...

It is not always necessary to decipher poetic lines. But this idea needs some clarification. "To the one who is clearly punished ...". Whom did Nikolai Pavlovich manage to punish by that time? The answer is the most banal: the leaders of the December uprising. A cruel punishment for those times, it was firmly remembered by the Pushkin generation. But what "favors" did the emperor give to the executed and exiled Decembrists? So, Pushkin under the object of "punishment" had in mind a broad generalization. Here - not only direct participants in the rebellion. Suppose Pushkin means the entire community of free-thinking nobles, the “unwhipped generation” that has begun to seethe. After December, Nikolai showed strictness towards these people ...

Where is mercy? Perhaps Pushkin is hinting at the Parisian guillotine? To revolutionary terror? In France, too, everything began with an aristocratic opposition, with progressive political projects. That is, Nicholas, having dealt with the "sedition", forestalled the Jacobin and Bonapartist developments. The Robespierre scenario would undoubtedly destroy the Russian nobility to the root. And, therefore, indeed, "secretly creates mercy."

In general, the message to "Friends" is a real masterpiece of political lyrics. And Pushkin's politics were always keenly interested, he did not consider it to be something anti-poetic.

It is time to remember how the "romance" of the nobleman Alexander Pushkin with Emperor Nikolai Pavlovich began.

thin Pyotr Konchalovsky. "Pushkin in Mikhailovsky"

“Most Merciful Sovereign!

In 1824, having the misfortune of earning the wrath of the late Emperor, I was excluded from service and exiled to the village, where I am under the supervision of the provincial authorities.

Now, with the hope of the generosity of Your Imperial Majesty, with true repentance and with the firm intention not to contradict the generally accepted order with my opinions (in which I am ready to undertake a subscription and an honest word), I decided to resort to Your Imperial Majesty with the most humble request ...

My health, which was deranged in my early youth, and the type of aneurysm have long required constant treatment, in which I present the testimony of physicians. I dare to most humbly ask for permission to go either to Moscow, or to St. Petersburg, or to foreign lands.

And then, on a separate piece of paper, he made a postscript:

“I, the undersigned, undertake henceforth not to belong to any secret societies, under whatever name they exist; I bear witness herewith that I have not belonged and do not belong to any secret society, and never knew about them.

The matter has moved. And on September 18, 1826, in the Moscow Miracle Monastery, the emperor honored Pushkin with a personal audience. The place chosen for the meeting was, of course, amazing. And for Pushkin, it is especially important: after all, from here he will lead the system of his tragedy - Boris Godunov. The shadows of Otrepiev and Tsar Boris hovered over the Kremlin monastery. The content of that meeting was preserved in retellings and gossip, the most diverse. From monarchical to rebellious interpretation. The truth is somewhere in the middle. But it seems that the interlocutors were not disappointed with each other.

There is evidence that after that meeting in the Miracle Monastery, Nicholas I said to Bludov:

Do you know that today I spoke with the smartest man in Russia?

With whom?

with Pushkin.

In democratic literary criticism, since the 19th century, the caricature image of Nikolai Pavlovich - a dictator, a hypocrite, a martinet - has been established. Unfair simplification. Yes, and this tradition arose only because the emperor died not at the zenith of glory, but during the days of the defeats of the Russian army in the Crimea.

The new sovereign - Alexander II - hesitated between filial feelings and the desire to show himself to others, unlike his father. Censorship turned a blind eye to criticism of the previous emperor - and freethinkers took advantage of this immediately. But there is another extreme: Pushkin is portrayed as an overly loyal, exalted nobleman, and Nikolai as his "adored father." Here we recall Philippic Marina Tsvetaeva:

The scourge of the gendarmes, the god of students,

Bile of husbands, delight of wives,

Pushkin - as a monument?

Stone guest? - is he,

Rock-toothed, sharp-eyed

Pushkin - in the role of Commander? ..

Oh, brave augurs!

I asked, I would give you a ball

The one who tsarist censorship

Only with a fool rhymed.

Indeed, a well-intentioned subject will not come out of Pushkin. In general, for the most part, they existed in the imagination of the official press - these cogs from the "Orthodoxy, autocracy, nationality" scheme.

Pushkin and the Tsar simply began to cooperate. Shortly after the Moscow meeting, he received a letter. “It is pleasing to His Imperial Majesty that you take up the subject of the education of youth. You can use all your leisure, you are given complete and complete freedom when and how to present your thoughts and considerations; and this subject should present you with the most extensive range, because they saw absolutely all the harmful consequences of a false system of education in experience, ”Benckendorff wrote to the poet on September 30, 1826. And a good note came out - “On Public Education”, although Pushkin was not eager to start such work ...

thin Kitaev A.V. "Pushkin and Benckendorff"

The emperor acted as a personal censor. It seems to be an honorary position for a poet. But it was necessary to act through Benckendorff. In fact, it was the latter who became Pushkin's censor. And this is, at least, an ambiguous turn. All publications made their way with difficulty - even the most innocent ones. The printed fate of "Boris Godunov", "The Bronze Horseman", "Dubrovsky" was not easy ... That is, an idyllic picture clearly does not work here.

But the demonization of Nicholas is even more unfair. After all, he was almost declared the true killer of Pushkin! And Pushkin was a man of the Nikolaev time. Such phenomena do not arise “in spite of” the state. In history, they stand side by side. They weren't enemies. And in the forged steps of the Bronze Horseman, Pushkin saw not only a threat, but also an image of a strong state, which he considered useful.

Outwardly, the duel looked like one of the many in his life - Pushkin was a passionate duelist, but with the only difference that it ended tragically for him. The reason for it was the desire of the great poet to stand up for the bright name of his wife. The day before, he received an anonymous letter - a libel, in which there was a frank allusion to the intimate relationship of his wife with the king.

The message clearly played into the hands of those political forces, internal and external, who hated the country called Russia. It is noteworthy that this murder took place in the year of the 25th anniversary of the expulsion of the French from Russia, and Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin accepted the death at the hands of a Frenchman.

The first quarter of the 19th century was marked for Russia by two great events: the brilliant victory of the Russian army over Napoleon, led by Field Marshal Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, and the uprising of the Decembrists on December 14, 1825. If the first event predetermined the leading role of Russia in all European affairs for the next four decades, then the second, if it had a successful outcome, would have ruined the country. The Decembrists, once in power, would hardly have kept the state in their hands. They would have fought among themselves, plunging the country into the abyss of fratricidal war. Everything would have ended with the collapse of the Russian empire and its disappearance from the political map of the world, primarily to the delight of French and Polish politicians. In their eyes, this would look like Russia's retribution for the humiliation they suffered, connected with the victory of Russian weapons and participation in the liquidation of the Polish state.

At the end of the first quarter of the 19th century, the importance of state values ​​for the normal functioning of society was most clearly realized by two great people: Nicholas I, by virtue of being in the highest position in power, and Pushkin, who had a statesman mind. It is no coincidence that they agreed on a common understanding of the consequences of the armed uprising of the Decembrists during their famous meeting in the Miracle Monastery on the territory of the Moscow Kremlin. Talking with the tsar, Pushkin agreed with the opinion of Nicholas I that Russia, where there is a heterogeneity of state elements and a large territory and there is “darkness of the people and the nobility”, cannot exist outside of autocratic power. In turn, Nicholas I agreed with the poet that, in the end, the current government should be transformed into a constitutional monarchy.

It should be noted that during the period of thirty years of rule, he only once resorted to such a method of maintaining autocracy as executions. If Peter I and Catherine II executed thousands of people, under Alexander I - hundreds, then under Nicholas I only five people from among the Decembrists were executed. Evaluation of him as a bloody ruler is on the conscience of liberal publicists and politicians of that time.

At the end of the meeting, Pushkin gave his word to Nicholas I to serve the Fatherland worthily and extended the hand of friendship to him. The poet took the side of Nicholas I in his decisive actions in connection with the suppression of the Polish uprising of 1831-1832, writing the famous poem "To the Slanderers of Russia". He, as a statesman, understood that behind the noble deeds of the Poles in a dispute with Russia, there were insidious plans of the West, and above all of France, who dreamed of blowing up the Russian state from within with the help of the rebellious Poles and inflicting a mortal blow on Russian foundations. Pushkin wrote 9 poems dedicated to the august monarch. In one of the letters to his wife, he wrote: “I saw three kings: the first ordered to take off my cap and scolded my nanny for me; the second did not favor me; the third, although he put me in chamber pages in my old age, but I don’t want to exchange him for a fourth, they don’t look for good from good.

There were far more ill-wishers of their close relationship than supporters. Some sincerely believed that the king and the poet were mistaken in assessing each other, exposing themselves to self-deception. Nicholas I was told that the poet had not abandoned his Voltairean thoughts and was leading the tsar by the nose in his own mercenary interests. Pushkin, on the other hand, was told that the tsar, having given him the lowest court rank of chamber junker, publicly humiliated him in the eyes of high society. Although in fact, with this gesture, the tsar officially demonstrated that even such outstanding personalities as Pushkin must observe the order of promotion to ranks.

We are not talking about how much gossip there was about the allegedly amorous relationship between Natalya Nikolaevna and Nicholas I. All this more than once made both of them doubt the sincerity of their relationship. Nevertheless, the noble service to the Fatherland of Nicholas I as a tsar and Pushkin as a poet did not allow the enemies to drive a wedge into their relationship. Even when the great poet was on his deathbed, he asked Vasily Zhukovsky to convey to the tsar and his son, the future heir to the throne, Alexander, a long and glorious reign in "the name of the prosperity of Russia." The poet was still alive when he was informed that Nicholas I would take care of his family and take over all its material concerns.

In those years, neither the tsar nor the poet could have imagined that in half a century the Pushkin family would become related to the royal family. The granddaughter of Alexander Sergeevich Sophia and the grandson of the emperor are married. They will leave for England, where the descendants of their family live to this day.

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"I saw three kings..."

In Delvigov's almanac "Northern Flowers" poems by the poet M. D. Delarue were often printed. His works did not arouse the enthusiasm of readers.

Delarue was a lyceum student of the later graduation. Pushkin did not appreciate him highly as a poet. In response to P. A. Pletnev’s letters, who found Delarue’s “excellent talent,” Pushkin wrote in April 1831: “Delarue writes too smoothly, too correctly, too stiffly for a young lyceum student. lots of art...

In the journal "Library for Reading" published by Smirdiki, Delarue published in 1834 a translation of V. Hugo's poem "Beauty":

If I were the king of the whole earthly world, Sorceress! then I would have cast before you Everything, everything that power gives to the people's idol: Power, scepter, throne, crown and purple, For your gaze, for your single glance. And if I were a god - I swear by the holy villages - I would give the coolness of paradise jets, And the hosts of angels with their living songs, The harmony of the worlds and my power over them For your single kiss!

Metropolitan Seraphim considered it necessary to draw the attention of Nicholas I to the "indecent expressions" made by Delarue in these verses and containing "daring dreams of being a king and even a god."

For permission to print this poem, the censor A. V. Nikitenko spent eight days in the guardhouse, and Delarue, who served in the office of the Minister of War, received a severe reprimand and was forced to resign.

Pushkin wrote about this in his Diary on December 22, 1834: “The Metropolitan (who has the leisure to read our nonsense) complained to the sovereign, asking him to protect Orthodoxy from the attacks of Delarue and Smirdin. The storm is coming from here. Krylov said very well:

My friend! if you were a god, then you would not be able to say such nonsense.

It's all the same, he remarked to me, that I would write: if I were a bishop, I would go in all my attire to dance a French quadrille.

In 1835, Delarue published a small collection of his poems, Experiments in Poetry, which he presented to Pushkin. This volume still stands on the shelves of the Pushkin library today. Of its one hundred and fifty-two pages, however, only twenty-eight have been cut.

Delarue worshiped Pushkin, and by 1834 there is a story about how he helped Pushkin out when his letter to his wife, Natalya Nikolaevna, was intercepted and opened by the Moscow postal director A. Ya. Bulgakov and fell into the hands of the chief of the gendarmes, Benckendorff.

The letter itself was innocent in content, but in it the poet mentioned three kings, and one of them - then reigning Nicholas I - received a letter from Benckendorff. Pushkin wrote: "... I report to the sick and I'm afraid to meet the king. I'll sit at home all these holidays. I don't intend to come to the heir with congratulations and greetings; his kingdom is ahead; and I probably won't see him. I saw three kings: the first ordered take off my cap and scolded my nurse for me; the second did not favor me; the third, although he put me in chamber pages in my old age, but I don’t want to exchange it for the fourth, they don’t look for good from good. Let's see, somehow our Sashka will get along with his porphyry namesake, I did not get along with my namesake. God forbid he follow in my footsteps, write poetry and quarrel with kings!

One can imagine with what surprise the immensely suspicious Nicholas I read the poet's letter that came to him ... But Zhukovsky nevertheless managed to present the matter to the tsar in a light favorable to Pushkin.

Pushkin, however, was deeply indignant at the interference of Bulgakov, Benckendorff and Nicholas I in his private personal correspondence with his wife, and on May 10, 1834 he wrote in his Diary: "But I can be a subject, even a slave, but I will not be a serf and a jester even with the king of heaven. However, what deep immorality is in the habits of our government! The police open letters from a husband to his wife and bring them to read to the king (a man of good manners and honest), and the tsar is not ashamed to admit it - and set in motion an intrigue worthy of Vidok and Bulgarin! Whatever you say, it's tricky to be autocratic."

Caricatured portrait of Emperor Paul I on the manuscript of the ode "Liberty". Drawing by A. S. Pushkin

Pushkin never trusted mail, and on December 20, 1823, he wrote to P. A. Vyazemsky: “I would like to know if it is possible to somehow avoid mail in our correspondence - I would send you something too heavy for her. Similar to us in Asia to write whenever possible.

Pushkin sent this letter to his friend from his southern exile, but in the ten years that have elapsed since that time, nothing has changed, and on June 3, 1834, the poet wrote to his wife in connection with the troubles he had experienced: I was unable to pick up a pen. The thought that someone is eavesdropping on you and me infuriates me ... It is very possible to live without political freedom; without family immunity ... it is impossible: penal servitude is uncommonly better.. ."

Almost half a century later, in 1880, an article "M. D. Delarue and Pushkin" appeared in the journal Russkaya Starina, in which it was reported that Benckendorff's secretary, a former lyceum student P. I. Miller, wanting to help Pushkin, transferred a copy of the clarified letter the poet to his wife from one section of Benckendorff's desk to another; knowing the distraction and forgetfulness of his boss, he wanted thereby to prevent the threat looming over Pushkin. According to another version, Delarue took her to himself.

This whole story characterizes the methods, means and customs of the emperor himself and his government and speaks eloquently of the trifles on which the greatest Russian poet had to waste his genius ...

In the history of world literature, the theme of the relationship between the poet and the tsar is one of the eternal themes, starting from Jesus Christ and Pontius Pilate and ending (but not ending!) with the interaction between Mikhail Bulgakov and Stalin. The life of A.S. Pushkin, as part of the general historical and literary process, fits perfectly here.
“I saw three kings: the first ordered to take off my cap and scolded my nanny for me; the second did not favor me; the third, although he put me in chamber pages under my old age, but I don’t want to exchange him for a fourth; they don’t look for good from good ... ”(from Pushkin’s letter to his wife, April 1834).

"First" - Paul I; Pushkin's young parents in his reign stayed away from the court and tsarist tyranny. "Second" - Alexander I. It is difficult to say that Pushkin "favored" Alexander Pavlovich. Even at the Lyceum, Pushkin composed epigrams for him (“He broke his nose in the kitchen, and that one near Austerlitz”). A freedom-loving spirit reigned in the Lyceum. A teacher of civil law, a graduate of the University of Göttingen, A.P. Kunitsyn, in his opening speech on October 19, 1811, managed not to mention the tsar even once, appealing to young men to become worthy citizens and rule Russia with honor: The Lyceum was conceived as a privileged educational institution for training of the highest state elite. Even at the Lyceum, Pushkin met the Tsarskoye Selo hussars, who went on a European campaign after 1812. The victory over Napoleon gave rise to hopes in the advanced circles of the noble youth for the liberation of the peasants in gratitude for saving the Fatherland. Pushkin absorbed freedom-loving moods in the Arzamas society, which included the future Decembrists Mikhail Orlov and Nikita Muravyov. Leaving the Lyceum, the poet plunged into the turbulent life of St. Petersburg, was aware of European events, welcomed terrorist acts (the murder of the Duke of Berry by the student Sand, Duke Kotzebue Louvel), wrote epigrams on Arakcheev (“The oppressor of all Russia, and he is a friend and brother to the tsar”) , on Alexander I:

Raised under the drum
Our dashing king was a captain:
Under Austerlitz he fled,
In the 12th year he was trembling.

Brightly satirical “Tales. Noel"

Hooray! Rides to Russia
Wandering despot.
The Savior is crying out loud
Behind him and all the people.
Maria is in trouble
The Savior is frightened:
"Don't cry, baby, don't cry, sir!
Behold, beech, beech, the Russian tsar!”
The king enters and says:

"Learn, Russian people,
What the whole world knows
Both Prussian and Austrian
I made myself a uniform.
Rejoice, people: I am full, healthy and fat,
The newspaperman glorified me
I ate and drank and promised
And he’s not tortured by deeds ... ”etc.

In the house of Nikita Vsevolozhsky, at a meeting of the "Green Lamp" (pre-Decembrist society), Pushkin in 1818 (at the age of 19) wrote the ode "Liberty", looking out of the windows at the Mikhailovsky Castle, where Paul I was killed:

Domineering villain!
I hate you, your throne
Your death, the death of children
With cruel joy I see.
Read on your forehead
The seal of the curse of the nations.
You are the horror of the world, the evil of nature,
You reproach God on earth!

Ode "Liberty" sang the triumph of the law. The assassination of Paul I took place with the consent of the heir to the throne, Alexander, i.e. the law has been broken. The author addresses the kings:

You stand above the people
But the eternal law is above you.

(In the 1830s, in the poem "Angelo" based on Shakespeare, Pushkin compares the dictatorship of law with the graces of a good king, looking for his ideal in an enlightened monarchy).

In 1819, Pushkin visited the village, Mikhailovskoye, but, unlike the previous trip with its "careless world of fields" and "light-winged amusements," a terrible thought overshadows the soul here. Of course, he saw pictures of “wild nobility” and “skinny slavery” not in the Hannibals’ maternal estate, but there were many “relentless owners” in the neighborhood. He again connects the hopes for the liberation of the peasants from slavery with royal mercy:

Will I see, O friends, an unoppressed people
And slavery, fallen on the mania of the king?!

Pushkin's epigrams and poems were enthusiastically received by the public, they were sold in lists and reached the tsar. Alexander I said: “Pushkin flooded all of Russia with outrageous (i.e. calling for rebellion - ed.) verses; he must be exiled to Siberia. Pushkin was supported by the court historiographer, a friend of the Pushkin family, Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, and the poet Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky, Pushkin's elder friend, adviser and informal guardian.

Petersburg Governor-General Miloradovich, a hero of 1812, a noble officer, summoned Pushkin to his place. Then it turned out that in the absence of the poet, someone came to the servant and asked for manuscripts for a while. Faithful Nikita Kozlov said that he did not know anything, and Pushkin, having come home, burned all the incriminating papers, so it was useless to send for them. But the young Pushkin, in a fit of nobility, wrote down in the presence of Miloradovich everything that he composed "against the government." Miloradovich, touched, announced forgiveness to Pushkin on behalf of the tsar.

However, Alexander I was not happy with this. Karamzin conveyed to the tsar the poet's promise not to write anything unlawful. (Pushkin promised: two years, but Karamzin found the deadline to be too impudent.) And on May 6, 1820, Pushkin was sent to Yekaterinoslav, as if on a business trip from the Collegium of Foreign Affairs.
The governor of New Russia, General Inzov, was a kind old man, so Pushkin had complete freedom in Yekaterinoslav and Chisinau, traveled with the family of General Raevsky to the Caucasus and the Crimea, met with members of the Southern Society in Kamenka, even got to their meeting. The existence of the organization was concealed from Pushkin, but ideas, goals and objectives were openly expressed. The Davydov brothers, M.F. Orlov, S.G. Volkonsky, D. Yakushkin, V.F. Raevsky, P.I. Pestel were his good friends. Pushkin corresponded with A. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky and K. Ryleev. I. Pushchin and V. Kuchelbecker are his closest friends from the Lyceum. Pushkin's poems were in the papers of all the Decembrists.

At first, Pushkin kept his word given to N.M. Karamzin. But in 1822 "Bird" appears:

Why should I grumble at God,
When at least one creature
I could grant freedom - when he was refused a request for a vacation in St. Petersburg. In 1823 - "Prisoner". Pushkin got into a fight with a Moldavian, and Inzov put the poet under house arrest.

1823-1824 - years of stay in Odessa. 1823 is considered the year of the crisis, when Pushkin was disappointed in his former idols and ideas. He no longer approved of revolutionary methods of reorganizing society.

Desert sower of freedom,
I left early, before the star;
By a pure and innocent hand
In enslaved reins
Threw a life-giving seed,
But I only lost time
Good thoughts and works...
Graze, peaceful peoples!
The cry of honor will not wake you up.
Why do the herds need the gifts of freedom?
They must be cut or sheared.
Their inheritance from generation to generation
A yoke with rattles and a scourge. (1823)

It is known that the Decembrists in their plans did not give place to the people.
In Odessa, Pushkin found himself in a completely different society: luxurious ladies, the theater, Italian opera, a lot of picturesque foreigners, the daily arrival of new ships from Europe. Love - Amalia Riznich, and later - E.K. Vorontsova, wife of the Governor-General, Viceroy of the Tsar in Odessa, Count M.S. Vorontsov. This "European" was very different from General Inzov. There was no kindness in him, but there was envy and the desire to excel. Probably, there were jealousy and resentment, but it seems that they did not have the main influence on Pushkin's fate. Vorontsov did not want to see Pushkin as a poet, the author of the most famous innovative poems: "Ruslan and Lyudmila" (published in 1820) and "Prisoner of the Caucasus" (published in 1822), but treated him like an official of the tenth class. There is a well-known story with a business trip to the locust. Vorontsov bombarded Pushkin's bosses in the capital with requests to remove the recalcitrant official from him. The bureaucratic machine turned around only a year later: the answer came by July 1824. In addition, Pushkin's letter was intercepted, in which he wrote that he was taking "lessons of pure atheism." In a country where censorship did not allow even such innocent epithets as "heavenly eyes", atheism is a terrible crime.

And on August 9, 1824, Pushkin was already in Mikhailovsky, in the “distant northern district”, where there are no theaters, no sea, no blue sky, no hot sun, no “cute southern ladies”. Pushkin is furious. In Mikhailovsky, he is under vigilant control. On the part of the nobility, it was carried out by A.I. Lvov, the Pskov provincial leader, A.N. At the same time there was a secret surveillance. Pushkin's southern love Karolina Sobańska was a secret agent and followed Pushkin and other poets. Her roommate Witt in 1826 sent secret agents to Mikhailovskoye. After the Decembrist uprising, the agent was sent to find out about Pushkin's behavior, lifestyle and thoughts with an open letter of arrest. But all the respondents insisted that "Pushkin lives like a beautiful girl."
Pushkin in the village composes "An Imaginary Conversation with Alexander I", in which he continues to tease the tsar: "Do not do business, do not run away from business." However, in the verses "October 19" (1825) forgives him "wrong persecution", since the king is also a man. But his merits are great: "He took Paris, he founded the Lyceum!"
Upon learning of the death of Alexander I (November 19, 1825), Pushkin was going to St. Petersburg, illegally - using a fake passport made by himself. But on December 13-14, he writes the poem "Count Nulin", instead of sharing responsibility with friends for ideas in the Senate Square, in the validity of which he no longer believed.

And on September 3, 1826, when the execution of the Decembrists had already taken place, a messenger from Pskov informed Pushkin that the governor was waiting for him, and without any fees the poet was taken to Moscow, right to the Miracle Palace, to the new emperor Nikolai Pavlovich, whose coronation was exactly took place during that period. True to the word of a nobleman, Pushkin never disclosed the content of the conversation with the Tsar. Only a few fragments have come down to us, such as the famous question whether Pushkin would have been on Senate Square if he had been in St. Petersburg on December 14.

As early as the end of November 1825, he wrote to Vyazemsky: “My soul, by God, I am a prophet! I order Andrey Chenier to print in church letters! André Chénier was a French poet of the French Revolution who was executed by the Jacobins. But Pushkin did not yet know how prophetic the lines would turn out to be:

“..A killer with executioners
We have chosen to be king. Oh horror, oh shame!”

“In our age, you know, even tears are a crime;
A brother does not dare to regret about his brother now, ”-

They fully corresponded to the mood after the execution of the Decembrists, and Pushkin's poems themselves were associated not with France, but with recent events in Russia.
In 1828, when Pushkin calmed down and wanted to get married, he had to justify himself in two trials. One was associated with the poem "André Chénier" and the other with the poem "Gavriiliade". In 1821, back in Chisinau, Pushkin wrote a blasphemous poem about the Virgin Mary, from which it follows that the Archangel Gabriel did not tell Mary the good news about the conception of the Savior, but himself contributed to her pregnancy. In 1828, Pushkin was a completely different person, the author of Boris Godunov and almost all of Eugene Onegin, the author of The Prophet, a poet who understood his divine destiny and an exceptional role in the development of social thought in Russia. He survived more than one ideological crisis, a deep personal tragedy in connection with the defeat of the Decembrists, exile, arrests and execution of friends. He believed the new tsar that he wished well for him personally, and for his friends, and for all of Russia. And then this ungodly poem pops up, about which he forgot to think.

Pushkin denied it with all his might, attributing authorship to the deceased D.P. Gorchakov, the author of obscene poems. But the case was not stopped until the tsar himself asked Pushkin to answer in writing in a sealed envelope. They say that Pushkin honestly admitted. But who knows what was there?

With the beginning of a new reign, Pushkin linked many hopes for reforms, for mercy for the fallen. He wrote a series of amazing poems: "Stans" ("In the hope of glory and good", 1826), "In the depths of Siberian ores" (1827), "Arion" (1827), "To friends" ("No, I'm not a flatterer.. ." (1828).

Two of them are well known in the school curriculum; the idea of ​​Pushkin's fidelity to the ideals of Decembrism is traditionally associated with them. A. Odoevsky in response to Pushkin promised: "A flame will ignite from a spark" (wow, it flared up!). But how then to understand the other two poems? Valentin Nepomniachtchi explains: Pushkin teaches the tsar! "In everything, be like an ancestor." Like, “the beginning of Peter’s glorious deeds was darkened by mutinies and executions,” but he knew how to forgive (“The Feast of Peter the Great” (1835), a scene from “Poltava” (1828); “And he raises a healthy cup for his teachers,” i.e. for the enemies, the Swedes who taught to fight). The hope for the forgiveness of the tsar "in the gloomy dungeon will wake up cheerfulness and fun" - that's what Pushkin had in mind. He saw in the king a nobleman true to his word. He writes about faith in royal promises in the poem “To Friends”: “I just fell in love with him”, “he who punishes openly, he secretly does mercy”, “he freed my thought” (he promised to be a personal censor).

The trouble is the country where the slave and the flatterer
Some are close to the throne,
And heaven's chosen singer
He is silent, lowering his eyes.

He did not want to be silent, he wanted to convince the tsar in an honest conversation to continue the work of his ancestor, Peter the Great. The king was a great actor and cunning. Having lulled the poet's vigilance, he did not allow him even to read works that had not passed censorship in front of his friends. In 1830, several literatures were asked to compile a note on public education. It was a test of loyalty. Pushkin showed a state mind in a note, but the test did not pass. Nicholas I gave his tragedy "Boris Godunov" for review to Faddey Bulgarin (a former friend of the Decembrists and Griboedov, a secret agent of the III department).

On February 18, 1831, Pushkin got married and took his young wife to Tsarskoye Selo, where he spent his youth, where the Karamzins lived. But the royal court also moved there, and the charm of Natalya Nikolaevna was noticed. And Pushkin's love for his wife was also noticed, and the world does not forgive the sincerity of feelings. In 1833, Pushkin took up history - the history of Pugachev, the history of Peter I. He needed archives - for work. And he needed money to publish his works. And the tsar took Pushkin back into service after his resignation in 1824. And Pushkin's rank was small, the tsar raised him to class XI, which corresponded to the chamber junker at court. The chamber junkers were usually 18-year-old offspring of noble families. Upon learning of such a "Christmas gift" from the tsar, Pushkin became furious, so Zhukovsky had to hold the newly minted courtier and pour cold water on him.

"History of Pugachev" ("Pugachev rebellion", at the insistence of the king) did not bring income. The loan taken from the king, there was nothing to return. Pushkin agreed that the salary would go to pay off the debt. The Bronze Horseman was mutilated by the royal censor, and in this form Pushkin did not want to print it. To top it all off, Natalya Nikolaevna, whom they wanted to see at court balls in the Anichkov Palace, threw her out at one of the last balls before Lent. She was 21 years old and already had two children. Pushkin was very frightened for her and, as soon as the opportunity arose, he sent her with two children, almost infants, to her relatives near Kaluga. Spending the summer in St. Petersburg without a family, Pushkin put in his resignation. But the king did not want to let the poet off the short leash. Correspondence went through Benkendorf with the advice of V.A. Zhukovsky (he was the tutor of the heir). Zhukovsky did not understand anything, ordered Pushkin to apologize to Benckendorff and the Tsar. Pushkin, in his own words, "having received a severe abshid", "fell in fear." After the poet's death, while sorting through Pushkin's papers, Zhukovsky realized that he was mistaken and that Pushkin had the only way out - to stay away from the tsar, because. Pushkin was a free man. Internally free:

Nobody
Do not give a report, only to yourself
Serve and please; for power, for livery
Do not bend either conscience, or thoughts, or neck;
At your whim to wander here and there,
Marveling at the divine beauty of nature...
... Here is happiness, here are the rights! (1836)

Pushkin traveled a lot around Russia, but he had never been abroad - the tsar did not let him in. He did not allow the poet to live in the village, intimidating that he would not allow him into the archives then. Pushkin had no income from the estate. (He jokingly used to say that his “village” was on Parnassus, and he took quitrent not from the peasants, but from 36 letters of the Russian alphabet.) Before the wedding, his father allocated 200 souls to him in Boldin, in the village of Kistenevka - they were laid for the sake of of money. Mikhailovskoye belonged to his mother, and when she died in March 1836, she passed into joint ownership of her father, brother, sister and Pushkin himself. The sister's husband insisted on selling Mikhailovskoye and dividing the money. Pushkin dreamed of buying it into his possession or, at worst, buying Savkino near Mikhailovsky. But he had no money, lived in debt. Therefore, nothing came of this venture.
Dantes was not an agent of the king, but the whole scandal in the world was in the hands of the king. After Pushkin's death, Nikolai sighed: "Pushkin was forcibly forced to die a Christian." At the suggestion of Zhukovsky, the tsar paid off private and forgave state debts, provided a widow with children with some pension; he allowed his sons to study in the cadet corps for free - in general, he surrounded with care and kindly caressed the orphans.
After Pushkin's duel with Dantes, Lermontov's poems began to circulate around the capital. The words about "arrogant descendants", "Executioners of Freedom, Genius and Glory" sounded in unison with Pushkin's lyre and received the name "Appeal to Revolution" in the lists. The tsar feared demonstrations in St. Petersburg and forbade the publication of obituaries. But A. Kraevsky nevertheless published in the Literary Supplements to the Russian Invalid: “The sun of our poetry has set!” Minister of Education S.S. Uvarov reprimanded him: what is a “great field”? - only the chamber junker died, and how is it "in the prime of life"? - the deceased, they say, was almost forty years old.

Pushkin was buried secretly and not in the church that was indicated in the invitation. Tens of thousands visited Pushkin's house, they were people of various classes, nationalities, etc. All of Russia came to bow to the coffin of their poet.

But the tsar was very pleased that he could humiliate Pushkin again. He learned that in the spring of 1836, Pushkin, having buried his mother in the Svyatogorsk monastery, bought the place for himself. The coffin was placed in a wooden box, wrapped in matting, and on a blizzard February day, A.I. Turgenev, accompanied by a gendarme officer, took Pushkin's body to the Pskov province. Faithful uncle, Nikita Timofeevich Kozlov, according to Turgenev, did not leave the box with the coffin to eat or drink, day or night. In addition to the three of them and the monastic brethren, the funeral was attended by two ladies Osipova - 13 and 16 years old - and peasants.
Secret supervision was removed only after the funeral, although the tsar assured Pushkin that there was no secret supervision over him.

At the grave of the poet, his words are recalled, putting poetry above kings and their state affairs:

I erected a monument to myself not made by hands.
It will not overgrow, a folk trail.
He ascended higher as the head of the rebellious
Pillar of Alexandria.

Prophecies about the pious glorious Russian Tsar as the anointed of God, miraculously manifested by God, have existed since antiquity and have found their place since the establishment of royal power in Russia. There are both foreign prophecies, for example, Greek and Athos, and domestic - Russian, from pious Christians and God-bearing elders. There are also prophecies spoken in a non-Orthodox environment, for example, among Catholics, the prophecies of Nostradamus, or the famous “Fotim Apparition” of the Mother of God in Spain to children, namely Her “Sixth Revelation” about the Revival of a strong and spiritual Russia. There are prophecies among spiritualists-mediums, psychics, seers-clairvoyants, etc.

But we are interested in the prophecies of Russian compatriots related to the likely place and close time of the appearance of the Tsar. This is due to the fact that the prophecies of the impeccable authority of the saints, even centuries later, are perceived with greater confidence than the predictions of contemporaries. As the Lord Jesus Christ said, "there is no prophet in his own country." Yes, it is psychologically difficult to perceive the ear-piercing words-prophecies about apocalyptic moods at a time when modern comfortable and everyday life is established. Who would have thought two years ago that the anti-Christ Ukrainian authorities would unleash a war against their people?

But this is exactly what the Odessa elder of the Holy Assumption Monastery, Schema-Archimandrite Jonah (Ignatenko) predicted: “The war will begin a year after my death.” After his death, on December 18, 2012, 11 months later, a bloody and fratricidal Maidan began in Kyiv. This prophecy has been fulfilled! “The war will last two years,” said the elder. So time is running out. What will happen next? According to the prophecy of the elder, Ukraine will become part of Russia and this will be associated with the revival of the monarchy and the appearance of the anointed Russian Tsar.

Seeing the zombification of the European happiness of Geyropa by the “glory of Bandera”, the anger and Russophobia of a significant part of the population of Ukraine, it’s hard to believe, but the fact remains - the prophecies come true!

Where and how should this happen?

I want to draw your pious attention to the holy deacon Philip Eliseevich Gorbenko Lugansky(1858-1956). He had a prophecy, both about the collapse of the Union and the colonization of Ukraine.

O. Philip tore the scarf into 3 parts with the words: "Girls, there will be no Soviet Union." Everyone was surprised: “It can’t be like that, how is it ?!” And he says: “Yes, like this: part 1 - the Baltic states, part 2 - Russia, at first it will be difficult for her, and then it’s good, part 3 - Ukraine. My poor Ukraine, foreigners will enslave her and take over all the factories.” This has obviously also come true!

And now about the future regarding us is connected with the unusual appearance of the Mother of God to the elder. In June (13, 14 and 15 - as commanded by Father Philip), the apparition of the Mother of God in the city of Lugansk is celebrated, which appeared to him three times in succession, marking the cross over the city with her procession. Moreover, She appeared every time at different ages (40, 60 and 18 years old). In this regard, the Luhansk icon appeared, which is now hidden. When this icon will be shown to the world is unknown. Something special must happen, but what exactly, no one knows yet. Everyone continues to wait for Philip to give some kind of sign. But what matters to us is the prophecy that is connected with this miraculous phenomenon - the appearance of the King, the anointed of God.

The Mother of God predicted: “I will say about this city that by the end of the world it will be called Tsargrad-Svyatograd Lugansk, it is determined to be the city of My glory, the heavenly Tsargrad. And many people will come here from all corners of the Earth, without knowing why. My help and blessing will then be with them on the Day of Judgment.” That is, Luhansk is the city of the Tsar, not the capital, but, perhaps, in this city there will be the appearance of the Tsar!

I will remember another of our contemporary, now living Schema-Archbishop Alipy (Pogrebnyak), Bishop of Krasno-Limansky (part of the Donetsk region, which is now under the control of Ukraine). Vladyka is known for the fact that in 1992 he was one of two bishops of Ukraine who did not sign an agreement on the autonomy of the UOC-MP. Then he fell into disgrace and was at rest for almost 20 years. During the bloody hostilities of the confrontation between Ukraine and Novorossiya, he was placed on the cathedra as an acting bishop in the city of Krasny Lyman, where he had previously created a powerful monastic community. Coincidence? Is this a coincidence? A gigantic temple was built, obviously redundant for a small town where there are already several temples, and there were already two temples on the territory of the monastery. To my question (it was around 2008, the temple was just under construction and Vladyka was still at rest), why such a large temple, he answered firmly, openly and without doubt: “So that all the guests can fit when the King comes here to anoint him ".

Even in the days of Vladyka’s youth, when he was a novice at the Holy Trinity Lavra, he had a miraculous meeting with a holy fool who foretold him prophecies related to his life: the Union would disintegrate, he would stand at the origins of the revival of the Dormition Svyatogorsk Lavra. Two prophecies have already come true, the third is left! For his strong standing in faith, God will give him a great gift - to anoint the King for the Kingdom!

The time is near, as you know, in the summer of this year in the city of Krasny Liman there was an appearance of two angels. The video was filmed by Ukrainian ATO soldiers and is freely available on the Internet. Is that by accident? What is this foreshadowing?

My Vision of the King

In the middle of the day on 06/09/2015 I had a dream, or, more precisely, there was a vision about the future Tsar Anointed of God. I myself am not inclined to any mystification or exalted feeling. And even at the miracles that parishioners tell me about, I try to look critically, looking for rational explanations. In the next few days, I did not talk to anyone about these topics and did not think about them. It is hard to even call it a vision or a dream, since the feeling and state were such that it was as if I had been transported into the future and was actually a participant in future events. Events have their own sequential course, but I, as it were, were simultaneously in different periods of time. This can be figuratively compared with an icon with a life, on which there is an image of events of different times that are superimposed.

So I see the King from the back, while I even experience or feel His emotions, feelings and thoughts. This feeling is the first time in my life. At the same time, I had a clear conscious mind and free feelings and actions. It was clearly not a dream in which you unconsciously participate in events. When I asked myself a question about what was happening, then an understanding-explanation of all this seemed to come to me, which I will state in square brackets. I will enter my assumptions about what is happening in parentheses. Are these events real or symbolic, or both, judge for yourself. (Events took place on the territory of Novorossia, possibly in Lugansk. Some time after this vision, I learned parallel prophecies about Lugansk, connected with Deacon Philip and the appearance of the Mother of God in the Svyatogorsk Lavra during the events of the ATO).

The people gathered in a rather large living room of some administrative building, where these events took place (people did not immediately go there, but sequentially, one by one). This living room had several exits (probably three), where the Tsar then went. This is a simple person, not particularly distinguished, but a bright patriot of Holy Russia [he himself did not know that he was the chosen one, until the last minute of the ceremony, when he was proclaimed Tsar]. And all the others did not know who the King was (everyone had his own assumptions, as the Chosen One himself assumed this about someone), but everyone was piously ready (to meet the King). The people who came here are different, there are not many of them. [They felt a call in their hearts that they needed to come here. A number of circumstances will develop in such a way that they will undoubtedly come, drawn by spiritual impulses]. They were not coordinated and were not familiar, except for those who got here in small groups (2-3 hours). There was a philosopher (academician), a historian, a rich oligarch, representatives of the press - five people, military men, a doctor, priests, future servants of God.

He was present there, waiting for the King, but an invisible person (possibly an angel) took His hand and said: “Let's go. Listen. Get strong." [He was not told this at once, so that there would be no slowdown due to his infirmity. Until the moment of grace descending on the reign, the devil was looking for this person to kill. And many times he had deaths, but the devil did not fully know that it was He who was the anointed one]. They led me into this room (somewhat reminded me of a home temple), there was an altar (altar) in one part of it, on which there was a tabernacle in the typical form of a temple, a cross, a gospel, a lit icon lamp and, most importantly, an oil pan with the world (as for anointing during time of service), a bottle of oil and a vessel (metal jug) with holy water. The altar was upholstered in green satin with ornaments (typically ecclesiastical as on vestments). There were two priests, but not in robes. They took him and brought him to the throne (most likely, the Chosen One himself was a priest, as he was in long clothes like a cassock and had a beard). Two priests [they did not know each other before, but were united in the royal spirit] had small black beards. Everyone (like everyone who got here) took the necessary supplies for this mission [precisely such a course of events that everyone took a separate thing, and not one person all at once, is connected with the catholicity of the people and so that the devil does not interfere and guess about this before the completion], they took myrrh and oil for anointing. They poured it on the throne (on some kind of matter) and began to mix this liquid. The chosen one, being in front of the throne, even wanted to taste it, what it was and why (comprehension had not yet come to him). Then another clergyman approached (it was a bishop, an old man with a long gray beard and hair in liturgical vestments), collected what was mixed into an oil pan, and with a prayer lifted it up.

The Lord poured ointment on His head: "God has chosen you, be faithful to Him in Service." A clear light (beam) from heaven illuminated the Chosen One, the power of God embraced Him. Then they poured holy water on Him from a metal jug, because of this, his long hair began to curl and brighten, as it were, the world began to be seen by Him differently, deeper.

The priests began to wipe it with towels. He got on his knees. On the floor was a small cushion in maroon velvet for her knees. And another small pillow, on which the Chosen One bowed his head on the throne, from which even a stain of the world remained on it. And only when they brought the crown, and he was already in the spiritual and grace-filled power of the Tsar (since all this action was performed unusually “spontaneously”, there was no crown on purpose. These were ordinary crowns as for a wedding, but converted into a royal crown).

Only then did the Chosen One realize that He is the King. The doubt lasted for a fraction of a second that it was not him, that he was not worthy, that it was impossible, but God's Strengthening Power was in Him because of his obedience and obedience to God and this mission of being chosen. Here is his first prayer to God. Closing his eyes, he leaned on the pillow, as he was still on his knees: "Lord, rule this people yourself, make your reign."

(Approximately so). Having risen, He was still in a kind of spiritual stupor, still completely unaware of everything. For this event, the Tsar's clothes were sewn in a miraculous way, so that the tailor, not knowing the size of the Tsar and not seeing Him, sewed everything according to the size of Him and his Queen. These are beautiful clothes of a very white color, reminiscent of long Russian caftans (somewhat similar to the overcoat of the Budenovites with red fasteners on the chest or the clothes of the hussars) with hanging sleeves, like those of Russian boyars. The fabric of this royal clothing is thick (it seems that this event obviously took place not in summer, but in autumn or early spring).

In the huge living room, where He entered, there was a long oak table, oak chairs around it, in the middle of the table there were two chairs-thrones with a high back. He saw in front of him the holy Tsar Nicholas II (a slight benevolent smile on his face), congratulating and handing over the kingdom to Him. He was seen by many present. The retinue of Nicholas II and His family also watched this whole event from the spiritual world, as if participating in this legitimate transfer of power.

When He sat down on a chair-throne, they announced: your queen. She left from the right door, deftly ran up to Him to hug and kiss Him. But this was not his wife (she was a head taller than Him, with painted lips, with a sweet and hypocritical look, aesthetically well-groomed, in clothes similar to the clothes of the Tsar). She couldn't touch Him. The spiritual strength that was in the soul of the King stopped her. Immediately the press began to take pictures. At that time, there was a strong struggle-temptation in the soul, depressing pressure-suffocation: “Maybe this is so necessary for the sake of the Kingdom? Or maybe it's better? ... ". But the Tsar sharply rejected this and shouted out in his soul: “This is a FALSE. How can truth and a kingdom be built on lies? In a voice before the people: “This is not a queen. Where is my wife? Why are you doing this to me?" The false queen disappeared, those who slipped her in almost died of fear, numbness seized them. (What this means, I did not understand, but, probably, the devil wanted to destroy the Chosen One of God, because the “queen” was slipped from the oligarch. Perhaps this is a symbolic image).

From that moment (after this temptation), the King had a great gift to see a person and around his circumstance (he felt this property and accepted and realized power), to command with power and authority, so that those who listened and saw Him felt reverence and fear, His words penetrated into the soul.

From the left door of this living room came His wife in a long blue flowered dress. Fragile blonde, frightened, because her husband is the King. Suddenly she was dressed in the same clothes as the Tsar, and a crown on her head, and already sat down with confidence on the left side of his throne. An invisible man (angel) said to Him: "You will win all the battles, and no one will stand against You."

Under His rule by the providence of God, people's fates and circumstances were arranged in such a way that if He spoke about someone and ordered them to do something, then everything was formed even before the voicing. When he commanded, even by a miracle of God it was always fulfilled. He led many people to God and many of the Gentiles were baptized. People from other countries will go to him for faith. People in the kingdom felt reverence and fear for Him, even corrupted and bad ones in the past changed. As if a harmonious tact emanated from the Tsar, a good mood for the whole state. Officials were afraid to disobey, because the king could instantly appear everywhere. God gave the King another opportunity and power to rule the Kingdom - he could be in several places at the same time. (It is difficult to understand, perhaps instantaneous movement in space. There are cases of such simultaneous presence of saints in different places, for example, a saint John of Shanghai. Such cases are known from the lives of many Catholic saints).

I saw that He immediately appeared on the battlefield (when and where this will be, I do not know, but, most likely, at the end of His reign) and mourned the dead. She cries bitterly, covering her face with both hands, asking God for their resurrection. He had a black cap on his head, like a Russian priestly skufi.

When I woke up, tears were flowing from my eyes, but I did not have the state of usual crying. Delight and fear, reverence and doubt whether I had fallen into charm, deep shock and joy about the future, everything was mixed up in my soul. He called his mother and told her about this vision. The dream is quickly forgotten, but the vision is still clearly preserved in consciousness. It turned out that on that day the procession from the Crimea to the city of Smolensk with the icon of the Royal Martyrs and the Holy Cross had just arrived in the city of Kamens-Shakhtinsky. I bowed reverently. This is hardly a coincidence. Until now, in the soul there is deep reverence, reverence, fear, faith, hope and love for the King Anointed of God.

I do not pretend to be recognized (this is a matter of testing our faith). But what was revealed to me, I told you, and you judge for yourself. But I am unequivocally sure that God is faithful to His words-prophecies, which were spoken earlier to the saints. And they will certainly come true, and to us sinners and weak, God gives strength through prophecies until the time of their fulfillment.

So:

1. The appearance of the Tsar will definitely be the greatest and most unusual miracle of God, an intervention in human history. But everything has a logical sequence and it will be a spiritual person!

2. The prophecies of blameless spiritual authorities speak of the soon fulfillment of this. We will witness this phenomenon, as some of the predictions have already come true!

3. This will definitely happen during the period of military world events, most likely, at the metaphysical point of contact between good and evil - Novorossia. For war tests to the extreme and exposes the inner moral essence of a person.

Many may have a natural question: do these prophecies about the Tsar have anything to do with the current President of the Russian Federation? Is there an ideological background here, directed against the current government? Is there a contradiction in this? After all, there is a fairly active spiritual patriotic group that is of the opinion that our current President V.V. Putin and there is the Tsar promised to Russia! Perhaps this is so, but perhaps not... Definitely and without a doubt, only one thing - they are led by God, as Elder Elijah spoke more than once.

I remember an incident from the life of a saint Ambrose of Milan. A pagan stoker comes into the temple, covered in soot, and suddenly a two-year-old child shouted to the whole temple: “Ambrose Bishop!”. Or let us remember the cruel persecutor Saul, who became the apostle Paul! With God everything is possible!

I want to leave this question open, leave room for faith and reasoning. There are conflicting opinions about this. But I want to get ahead of everyone and assure: everything will be harmoniously arranged, without contradictions, for the glory of God and Russia and the salvation of the people! I want to express only the facts: no one is sitting on the throne in the throne room in the Kremlin. In a recent interview with the American correspondent V.V. When asked if he was a tsar, Putin answered “no”.

He will appear in the blink of an eye on the throne, miraculously, at a crowded event in the Kremlin, and everyone will see Him. The words of the gospel, spoken with authority and power, will penetrate the soul, leaving all doubts about who He is. The hordes of demons that came out of Hell before the 1917 revolution. (remember the vision, like, to the saint John of Kronstadt. He saw hordes of demons coming out of the abyss, crying, “Our time! our cause!”), at this time they will run to the other side of the world, prepare for war.

There is a time for everything: “Even the Tsar will not know about this until the last minute ...”

Our business is a deeply moral life, active social participation in society. God grants helping, instructing grace through the king of the Anointed of God, but there is no need to idealize. It will never replace our daily personal moral choice, participation, work and repentance before the Lord.

Archpriest Oleg Trofimov, Doctor of Theology, Master of Religious and Philosophical Sciences